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[Wayne Stambaugh <stambaughw@xxxxxxxxx>]

Jose,

You are correct.  The only regression would be for boards create between
the original patch and the bug fix which would be a fairly short period.
 Other than fixing broken older board files, the rotation feature
remains in tact so I don't think any changes are required.

Cheers,

Wayne

On 2/12/2018 8:37 PM, José Ignacio wrote:
> This is a bit of a pet issue. the original patch introduced a regression
> (text suddenly got flipped upside down because of the way it was saved
> and the way kicad restricted text angles), that later was fixed, but the
> fix only worked correctly for files created before the change
> (regression) was introduced. Thus the "regression" kevin refers to was
> just the restoration of the original behavior for files _from the
> previous released version of KiCad_, Using the dev version carries a
> small risk of having to manually change your files as kicad can only
> really promise to open successfully files from actual released versions
> of the software (though in general it has done a pretty damn good job at
> keeping continuous compatibility throughout the development of this new
> series).
> 
> On Mon, Feb 12, 2018 at 5:01 PM, Marco Ciampa <ciampix@xxxxxxxxx
> <mailto:ciampix@xxxxxxxxx>> wrote:
> 
>     On Mon, Feb 12, 2018 at 02:14:41PM -0500, Kevin Cozens wrote:
>     > On 2018-02-12 12:52 PM, Wayne Stambaugh wrote:
>     > >Obviously I did not get the stable 5 branch created over the weekend.  I
>     > >was busy patch reviewing and merging.
>     > [snip]> I should be able to get v5 branched this weekend so going forward we
>     > >have a few bugs tagged for rc2 which I'm hoping take less than a month
>     > >to complete.
>     >
>     > Text rotation in pcbnew is another item that needs to be looked at (again).
>     > I provided a patch to allow R to rotate text to any multiple of 90 degrees.
>     > Since the patch was accepted in to the code base some other code change has
>     > limited the rotations of text to 0 or 90 degrees once again. Half the text
>     > on a PCB of mine is now upside down.
>     >
>     > I've been busy on a couple of projects so I haven't yet filed a bug report
>     > about this regression. I will file a report asap.
> 
>     Hi Kevin,
>     since it seems to me that it is not the first time I see this kind of
>     regressions happen to KiCad, I wonder why this happens and also if there
>     is a way to avoid it, for example a more strict workflow to commit
>     patches or to do more atomic changes or to use more git rebase instead
>     of merge and so on ...
> 
>     I am _not_ a developer so I might have said something incorrect or naïve
>     but I am curious and I cannot resist to ask ... sorry for the noise...
> 
>     TIA
> 
>     Best regards,
> 
>     --
> 
> 
>     Marco Ciampa
> 
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